China central bank governor says first-quarter economic data a little better than expected

Reuters  |  BEIJING 

(Reuters) - China's central governor, Yi Gang, said on Thursday that first-quarter Chinese economic data has been a little better than expected.

Yi was a at a Belt and Road conference in

is due to release its first-quarter (GDP) data on April 17.

GDP is expected to have grown around 6.8 percent from a year earlier, according to an ongoing poll.

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First Published: Thu, April 12 2018. 06:51 IST